Editing Moon Hoax (section)

===Poll results===
On 14 June 1970, Knight Newspapers polled 1721 people in six US cities and found that more than 30% were "suspicious of NASA's trips to the Moon" with the number rising to 54% in some Afro-American areas.<ref name="wired"/><ref name="Kaysing">B. Kaysing, R. Reid, [http://books.google.com?id=N1Gcfdj81T4C We never went to the Moon], Health Research Books, 1976, ISBN 9780787304874</ref><sup>[http://books.google.com?id=N1Gcfdj81T4C&pg=PA5 (pp. 3, 5)]</sup><ref name="age">[http://history.nasa.gov/Remembering_Space_Age_B.pdf Remembrance and cultural representation of the Space Age], NASA, p. 378</ref> And on 4 November 2002, the Italian daily "Corriere della sera" reported that 68% of the non-white US population do not believe NASA.<ref name="moongate">[http://nexusedizioni.it?option=com_content&task=view&id=81 Moongate: A bomb ready to explode?], S. Colzani, 16/2/05 (It.)</ref> The following table lists a score of public opinion survey results. The "sceptics" column shows the percentage of people who doubt or deny that men walked on the Moon.

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!Organisation
!Year
!Country
!Age
!Sceptics
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|Knight Newspapers, Inc.
|1970
|USA
|N.A.
|30%<ref name="wired"/>
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|Gallup, Inc.
|1976
|USA
|N.A.
|28%<ref name="sdg"/>
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|The Washington Post
|1994
|USA
|N.A.
|30%<ref name="moongate"/>
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|Public Opinion Fund
|2000
|Russia
|N.A.
|28%<ref>[http://bd.fom.ru/report/cat/sci_sci/kosmos/of001605 Were the Americans on the Moon?], A. Petrova, 19/4/00 (Rus.)</ref>
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|Fox TV
|2001
|USA
|N.A.
|20%<ref name="desert">[http://deseretnews.com/article/946348/ Book to confirm Moon landings], S. Borenstein, 2/11/02</ref>
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|Dittmar Associates, Inc.
|2006
|USA
|18–25
|27%<ref>[http://boeing.com/defense-space/space/constellation/references/reports/Engaging_the_18-25_Generation.pdf Engaging the 18–25 generation: Educational outreach, interactive technologies, and space], M. Dittmar, 25/9/06, p. 6</ref>
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|Unspecified
|2008
|USA
|N.A.
|28%<ref>[http://somethingawful.com/d/news/election-facts-data.php?page=2 Overlooked election facts & statistics], Z. Parsons, 8/2/08</ref>
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|20th Century Fox
|2008
|UK
|Adults
|35±5%<ref>[http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/200807415061467 Area 51 is top conspiracy theory], Sky News, 31/7/08</ref><ref>[http://guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/31/1 US base leads poll's top conspiracy theories], The Guardian, 31/7/08</ref><ref>[http://thaindian.com/newsportal/world/50pct_10078317.html 50pct Britons believe in captive space aliens], ANI, 31/7/08</ref>
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|Unspecified
|2009
|USA
|N.A.
|22%<ref name="mirror">[http://mirror.co.uk/a/115875-21123653/ The Dark Side of the Moon: 40 years after Moon landing the doubts persist], D. Ellam, 14/2/09</ref><ref name="express">[http://dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/114552 Moonfakers], P. Sheridan, 17/7/09</ref>
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|Engineering & Technology magazine
|2009
|UK
|16–64
|25%<ref>[http://kn.theiet.org/news/jul09/moon-landing-survey.cfm Britons question Apollo 11 Moon landings, survey reveals], E&T, 8/7/09</ref>
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!Source
!Year(s)
!Language
!Attendance
!Sceptics
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|Spiegel TV
|2001+
|German
|≈5000
|47%<ref>[http://www1.spiegel.de/active/vote/fcgi/vote.fcgi?voteid=1060 Ein kosmischer Streit / Hat die erste Mondlandung überhaup stattgefunden?], Der Spiegel (Ger.)</ref> †
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|Sparklit Networks
|2002+
|English
|≈7000
|41%<ref>[http://vote.sparklit.com/poll.spark/626608 Did we land on the Moon?], Sparklit.com</ref>
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|BBC
|2003–2004
|English
|≈20000
|41%<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/moonvote.shtml?displayresults=1&configfile=space_moonvote.xml Did we really land on the Moon?], BBC, 28/4/05</ref>
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|Alex Dantart<ref>[http://dantart.es Alex Dantart], 17/5/08 (Sp.)</ref>
|2007+
|Spanish
|≈3000
|53%<ref>[http://86400.es/2007/01/16/el El hombre llegó a la Luna... ¿o no?], A. Dantart, 16/1/07 (Sp.)</ref>
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|PourOuContre.com
|2007+
|French
|≈1700
|62%<ref>[http://www.pouroucontre.com/cgi-file/vote.cgi?num=56922 Pensez-vous que l'homme a marché sur la lune?], PourOuContre.com (Fr.)</ref>
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|20 Minuten daily
|2009+
|French
|(to be added)
|45%<ref>[http://20min.ch/community/poll/?pollid=10132 L'Homme a-t-il marché sur la Lune?], 20Minuten.ch (Fr.)</ref>
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|Aftonbladet daily
|2009+
|Swedish
|≈75000
|40%<ref>[http://aftonbladet.se/vss/special/storfragan/visa/0,,41250,0.html Do you think the first Moon landing was a scam?], Aftonbladet, 15/7/09 (Sw.)</ref>
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|CNews.ru on-line daily
|2009
|Russian
|≈5500
|49%<ref>[http://rnd.cnews.ru/inc/poll/archive.php?p=7 Archive of polls], CNews.ru (Rus.)</ref>
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|Twiigs, LLC
|2009
|English
|≈1400
|42%<ref>[http://twiigs.com/poll/Technology/35897 Do you think the government could fake a Moon landing?], Twiigs.com, 20/7—19/8/09</ref>
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|PlanetMars.org
|2009+
|English
|≈2000
|37%<ref>[http://planetmars.org/modules.php?name=Surveys&pollID=3 Did we land on the Moon in 1969?], E. Wieder, PlanetMars.org</ref>
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† German astronaut Prof. Dr Ulrich Walter noted that the percentage of sceptics increased from 36% in 2002 to 44% just two years later.<ref name="Walter"/>